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Show jmm KILLED l! STAIIPEDE FOLLOWING JUI OF FK III IMG PICTURE SHOW - CANK0N8BU110, Pa., Aug. !. Twsaty-aVs persons were killsd and mors thsa aixty lejurss Saturday aight when' a moving pieturs aim ex- rloded is ths Csnnonsbnrg opera kouss. mmadistely following ths flash of the Ma asms person shouted "Are!" There wss a rash for the exit aad ia a msmsst thers wsa a writhing, screaming mass sf humanity ia tha narrow atairway leadiag to tbs entrance of ths theatre. I ke panic, it is ssid. wsa senseless. Most of ths dssd were emolhered. A - great majority of ths sudienes wss composed of womes sad children. Is ths Scree rusk for ths sxit they wars throws from their feet sad trampled sa. Others were thrown npoa them, and thoes at ths bottom of ths humss pils were suffocated. Crowd ranis Strleksn. Wkea two volunteer fire departments reached ths theater Ihs aight staggered them. Thees whs secsped from ths buildisg aad other psrsoss draws to ths scene were rushing ineffectively about Ihs front of ths building. Ns person wss making any effort to sid ths elrnrguag msas within ths theater. The fireraea pushed into ths building build-ing snd threw sissy persons into ths - stress. other firemen and forced to move some dtatance down the street. Other firemen war stationed as guards to keen them from rushing back to tb theater after relative or frtenda. Itodisg Taken to Morgut, Th firemen war reinforced hv cltl-ens. cltl-ens. The bod lea of th dead, after the thaler had been clared, ware taken to Improvised Im-provised rnonruea. fome of the Injured ware taken to hospital hos-pital pew wounds were serious. Mi of thos hurt were takea to their home or nearbv houeee. In th excitement a woman threw her Infant child from a aids window of the theater, fifty feet from the ground. J. A. Rees caught th Infant In his arms and placed it la charge of a woman at a fruit store. When th body of Mrs. Harry Klly waa found she was clasping tight to her breaat her I-year -eld eon. The lad had died of suffocation, but there was not a bruls or scratch on his body. Tb4r Wag Filled. The Csnnonsburg opera house I in the second floor of the Morgan block at Federal Fed-eral and Plk streets, and is owned by J. P. Morgan of Csnnonsburg. The theater the-ater has been devoted to the exhibition of moving pictures. Ths main auditorium auditor-ium seats foot persons, while a gallerv has a capacity of N. In ths front of the gallery la the asbestos booth of the moving-picture mechln. F.n trance to the theater la through a narrow veatlbule on tha Pike street side and up a narrow nar-row stalrwav of fifty Steps leading directly di-rectly into th theater. When ths panic occurred th theater waa filled, while the ptalrwav and veatlbule veatl-bule were packM with persona a wail lug their turn to a the show. a As the thronca sweot out of the build- Ing over the bodies of the fallen, they eprd out when they reached th street. Aa the press loosened, men. women and children fell fainting to the sldewau.. Ths crush had been ao tight that In many case persons were carried up-riant up-riant m th crowd, not falling until their support era separated. Some-of these car-I car-I rid out thus were cruahed to death. I Mis Mary Craig, pianist at the theater, the-ater, when the cries of "fire' sounded. ; and th rush to safety started, began I playing a slow march. Over and over i she played the anarch, never faltering-Many faltering-Many In th crowd caught th swing of tit music and tried to hold hack the crowd. When th audlenr hsd swept from the building Mis Craig left uninjured. , As ths elected ease rsgeiasd their feet, they raa shrieking ts terror about the streets. As ths firemea assred the bottom of ths pils they begaa to briag out ths forma of ths iajuyed aad latsr . tbs dssd. . . Ths desd were laid Is a row aa the sidewalk. Relatives fought aad struct gled to brsak past tks guards sad reach ths victims. . Tbs Dosst ARTHUR BEAK, tt yssrs old. I RA-NCtS BIRD, II years old (oal- , rMANGEIXA BOBINBON, 17 years sld. MRS. TBEDEBKK MARSHAL 40 ye ra old. MRS. HARRT KELLEY, It years" aid. of Houston. Ps. EARL KELLEY, t years old, soa of Mrs. Keller. ADOLPH BUTPE8KT. 16 yssrs old. WALTER NTSH. U yeers eld. WOLCOTT, 1 years old. - OEORGE KAY. II vssrs old. PAUL MESTICK. 1J years old. FRANK 8YBOR08KI, 18 years old. re-ysar-sl daughter of Tony Gled. " f TDNTT RITTITER. 15 yssrs old. MBS- CALLIB YOU NO. M yssrs old. KLEG F. t years sld. MURRAY HILL. 1 veers eld. Fivs-yeefeld daugktsr of Wilbar Is ELLIE M "RETRinE. M yssrs old. Isfsst dasgbter of Mrs. Grssa, Wsst-. Wsst-. srtowa. Pa. Tws anksewa worsen, about 23 aad tl years old. X months sld Isfsst. Withia a few moments sfter ths film flashed asd ths pa sis started tbs fire whiatles were blows. The entire popo-lstioa popo-lstioa resposded asd pscked in ssrrow Piks street, into which the fatal the star spess. All of them were apparent-Iv apparent-Iv tarror-stricksa aad eould giva little aid. . Tried ts fcastber rUmee. John MeCulloush. eserator ef the - mot Ing picture sechlne. bed lust thrown tbe sublec-t of a series of owturee on the ecreen entitled "A Mule Girl Khali Lead Them." when the film exploded and Ihs asbestos cabinet waa ed with names. ' gov several moments the audience. Bum-he Bum-he ring onwards ef not sersons. waa unaware un-aware ef the accident, and. the eneratur heroically fought Sewn the flames snd extinguished them. Then, hie hands ' ' burned and eltneet suffoeeted. he noened the door ef the little boa and staggered eut. wtih the ooentng of the door, a dense cleud of amok poured lato tke auriilorltinx. .. . At this moment eome person yelled "Fire!" The eoectstors turned In therr eeata- saw the amoke. tumped to their f-et and atarted In s rush for a doorway leading ts the right stairway. At the eairway tbe fleeing women and cb ' -n tea Into foe persons who were awa -naT admission. ' immediately the yarrow stairway was necked ten feet b-n with the dead and dvlrur. and ta-)urd ta-)urd and those who eeeaoed unhurt. Tne volunteer Sna dsnartment waa eoes on ths erene. As some of the firemen threw Vd dragged the iinlnlured out of Us buWuut Ussy wars taxes la ehsrgs by |
